Adding New Notes

Adding new notes

In general, you will probably do most MIDI editing with the mouse in object
mode. This allows you to select notes, copy, move or delete them and alter
their properties (see below). But at some point, you're going to want to
add notes to a MIDI region using the mouse, and if they are to be
anything other than a fixed length, this means dragging with the mouse.
Since this would normally be a selection operation if the mouse is in object
mode, there needs to be some way for you to tell Ardour that you are trying
to draw new notes within a MIDI region. Ardour provides two ways
do this. One is to leave the mouse in object mode and
Left-drag. The other, useful if you plan to
enter a lot of notes for a while, is to switch the mouse into
Draw Notes mode, which will now interpret any drags
and clicks as requests to add a new note. For obvious reasons, you cannot
use Draw Notes mode while using region-level editing.